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Two days before he would die from a cardiac arrest and be resuscitated following a routine medical procedure Fred Swan wrote a skeptical prayer in a journal. Discouraged and depressed he asked the Universe that he might wake from his upcoming procedure a changed man a man with a differing view of his life. In the days ahead a physician cautioned his family Before we start worrying about how he will climb the stairs let us first determine if he has brain function. A portion of Swans sight and his ability to comprehend the passage of time did not accompany his eventual journey back up the hill to his house. Ten months later the same physician who had both saved his life and cautioned Swans family about the potential for brain damage was summoned to perform open-heart surgery on Swans wife. A story of childhood a story of love a story of aging Parentheses sensitively explores a life on the other side of a miracle a life on the other side of the light where all things are not clear and peaceful where neither all truths nor all insights have been revealed. This beautifully constructed and experimental memoir provides a rare and sensitive glimpse into the heart and the mind of a man as he searches through his troubled childhood his quest as an adult to meet a birth parent his life as a father and a husband his questions about the existence of God and the psychological debris left from a catastrophic physical event. Parentheses: My Life Before During and After My Death is a story of hope and of the resiliency of the human spirit. It takes a journalistic introspective and spirited path that will resonate with readers who despite the enormous losses and challenges we all eventually encounter continue to hope and who continue to aspire to use to the fullest any day and any potential they are given.